TY - JOUR
T1 - Advanced MR imaging of gliomas
T2 - An update
AU - Kao, Hung Wen
AU - Chiang, Shih Wei
AU - Chung, Hsiao Wen
AU - Tsai, Fong Y.
AU - Chen, Cheng Yu
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Recent advances in the treatment of cerebral gliomas have increased the demands on noninvasive neuroimaging for the diagnosis, therapeutic planning, tumor monitoring, and patient outcome prediction. In the meantime, improved magnetic resonance (MR) imaging techniques have shown much potentials in evaluating the key pathological features of the gliomas, including cellularity, invasiveness, mitotic activity, angiogenesis, and necrosis, hence, further shedding light on glioma grading before treatment. In this paper, an update of advanced MR imaging techniques is reviewed, and their potential roles as biomarkers of tumor grading are discussed.
AB - Recent advances in the treatment of cerebral gliomas have increased the demands on noninvasive neuroimaging for the diagnosis, therapeutic planning, tumor monitoring, and patient outcome prediction. In the meantime, improved magnetic resonance (MR) imaging techniques have shown much potentials in evaluating the key pathological features of the gliomas, including cellularity, invasiveness, mitotic activity, angiogenesis, and necrosis, hence, further shedding light on glioma grading before treatment. In this paper, an update of advanced MR imaging techniques is reviewed, and their potential roles as biomarkers of tumor grading are discussed.
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U2 - 10.1155/2013/970586
DO - 10.1155/2013/970586
M3 - Review article
C2 - 23862163
AN - SCOPUS:84879376559
SN - 2314-6133
VL - 2013
JO - BioMed Research International
JF - BioMed Research International
M1 - 970586
ER -